Anonymous 2011/06/17(Fri)13:25 No. 314239 ID: f5e4b4
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That was until a week ago, when the food stopped coming. The creature waited, and waited, but no corpses, no agonizing or panicking Gorks fell down the pit to satisfy its hunger. And it was awfully quiet out there. Too quiet.

The creature waited for another three days, until the hunger became stronger than the fear of being punished. The morning light beckons it, but will it gather the strength to climb up and find out what happened to its masters? Should he be cautious or not?

The creature has never been in the outside world since they threw it into the pit when it was too young to remember. It doesn't know what to do.

CLIMB YOUR WAY TO FREEDOM

Climb up. And caution is always a good thing, unless there is no time to be careful; You have time here.

Climb out. Hug anyone who stops you.

Ascend

yeah little beast, you have no reason to rush. climb out and look around with caution.

For to long they have caged you in this hole. It's time for them to pay the price in flesh and marrow. It's time for the world to remember why monsters are feared. RISE UP.

Whatever did away with the Gorks is probably gone after three days, but it is best to be cautious.

>You have time here.
No, you do not have time, unless you like starving. Get up the damn hole.

Anonymous 2011/06/17(Fri)17:10 No. 314306 ID: f5e4b4
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The creature finds enough courage to creep its way up the hole, and overcomes its fears enough to peek out.

The sunlight is blinding and a bit painful, but it also feels invigorating. There's no sight of the masters, and it's awfully quiet out here.

a bone! crack it open and suck out the marrow.

Gnaw on bone and rip bag to pieces as you wait for eyes(?) to adjust to light

>>314306
Reach backwards, grab the bag. GRAB IT. It's full of delicious choclots!

Is that a tentacle that we have?

Anyway, we should expect the BAG and check the BOWL for anything left in there.

Also, we probably want to take that torch if we can dislodge it. A magical torch of not burning out seems like it would be useful. (Defacing altars sometimes springs traps, but I think we are the trap.)

Eat any goddamn thing you can manage in here.

Also try to read what's on the walls.

>>314306
Wait for the sun to go down, or at least for your cave to be in the shadows.

Anonymous 2011/06/17(Fri)18:30 No. 314338 ID: f5e4b4
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The creature impulses itself out of the hole, and the first thing it does is absorb the nearby bone and bag. It's able to digest them without problems, and the bone soothes its hunger for the moment. The bag isn't really tasty, though. It kind of tastes like metal. A shame the creature doesn't know yet the concept of bags and how to open them. Whatever was inside that one, is gone now.

The creature wiggles softly under the sunlight, realizing that this is the beginning of a new life. Of the real life, even. And it doesn't even have a name. Before exploring further, that task should be taken care of.

The creature needs a NAME.
What should it be?

>>314338
What? Name? Pfft. You don't need one of those. Where did you even come up with that?

you are MECHI
and can you also eat the wood in the firepit?

I call you Gorki

There is WOOD next to you in the STONE CIRCLE. Eat it. There is BLOOD on the wall next to you. Absorb it. The FLAPPY THING is made of organic fibers. CONSUME IT as you go OUTSIDE. Concentrate on developing CONCEPTS.

We don't want to eat the BLOOD as it might be useful if we acquire some KNOWLEDGE any time soon.

Hrm, the magic in that torch (still burning and burning blue after three days) looks delicious, but if we just try to eat it it will burn us.

>>314338
Fraelick York Gorgon The First
but your friends call you York

>>314338
Your name is The Giant Space Amoeba.

Consume anything of any nutritional value in the room.

Anonymous 2011/06/18(Sat)12:17 No. 314563 ID: f5e4b4
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A storm of thoughts and ideas assault the creature's minds, even asking itself why would it need a name, and where did that idea come from anyways? But after all, it decides to stick to the first name that came to its mind. Mechi.

Well, what next? Oh yeah, eat everything! Mechi absorbs the wood in the fireplace. It's not really tasty and barely soothed its hunger.

The blue torch looks menacing and mesmerizing at the same time. It's beautiful, but just looking at it Mechi feels like it's not safe to be anywhere near it.

The red stuff on the wall? Of course Mechi doesn't know how to read that, they're merely random splashes on the wall for it. The gooey creature tries to suck the blood, but it's been dry for a long time. No way to scrap it out unless he takes a chunk of the wall with it. And after all these years stuck inside a pit in a cave, he's had enough of munching on rocks (or rather, eroding them).

>>314563
Nibble on the curtain while peering into the light.

yes, go through curtain and get fist feeling of sun.

Our new objective is EATING THE SUN. Via Photosynthesis. SUN HOOOOOOOO!

Peek under the curtain before going out.

I wonder how much freedom we have when it comes to molding our amorphous friend here...

Anonymous 2011/06/19(Sun)10:06 No. 315073 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi peeks out and immediately backs off to the other side of the room, blinded by the sun. Two hours later, when it get used to the intense sunlight, it peeks through the door again.

Mechi has never seen the village before, but it could hear it from the pit. There was always the noise of people talking loudly, tools, metal against metal. But now the silence was complete, and there was not a single person out there.

>>315073
Taste delicious grass. I'm sure the bloody footprints are of no consequence.

>>315073

inspect MINIATURE PURPLE DILDO.

eat TALL grass.

Anonymous 2011/06/19(Sun)12:39 No. 315096 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi mows the lawn.

Mechi feels USEFUL!

>>315080

It actually looks like a small collar case. But Mechi doesn't know that, it's just some shiny colored thing on the ground for him. It doesn't even look or smell particularly tasty.

>>315096
Flatten yourself. Increase surface area and EAT EVERYTHING.

if it's not tasty then ignore it. go eat the extra tall grass around the rocks and stuff.

>>315096
put it in magical hammerspace INV

>>315099
Even the topsoil appears to be delicious!

>>315096

...man, I wish I could get you to work at my Dwarf Fortress.

if you can take it with you without devouring it, do so. otherwise leave it alone. we don't want you to get fat after all.

Does eating things gain us Mass (like in BlobQuest) or just fill Mechi's hunger?

>>315096
Investigate that mat over there. By which I mean check to see if it's tasty.

Just to test, try going over some grass without eating it. Then eat the grass afterward.

Anonymous 2011/06/19(Sun)16:55 No. 315173 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi experiments with its body, realizing that, to digest stuff, it has to absorb them into the darker, heavier cores inside its form. So, it could carry some items as long as he can keep them away from the big, purple blobs.

The goo monster picks up the case, not really knowing why. But it felt like a smart thing to do. And that feels kind of good.

Mechi also notices that flattening itself to cover more space isn't that efficient at all. Covering more surface spreads the acidic cores. So they corrode more area, but they also do it slower.

Mechi eats some more grass. It guesses that it can survive off this stuff... if it ate every inch of grass in the valley, that is. Seriously, this stuff is like eating air.

>>315126

No way, soil is gross! Years of life inside a hole tell you that.

>>315137

Mechi has no idea! It still feels pretty hungry and weak. The creature should try to find some real food if it wants to survive to discover its potential.

>>315139

The mat smells of blood and... something else Mechi can't identify. Other than that, it doesn't look particularly tasty.

You can climb even near-vertical surfaces, correct? Well let's go see if there's anything decent to eat in any of the other cave dwellings.

Examine the blood on the road ahead.

>>315196

perhaps we should satiate our hunger before we walk... slide? ooze? towards potential threats. I second exploring the settlement in search for food and info.

Quickly search the other caves for food.

>>315173

Stop blinking and stare intensively. See the difference.

Would that WOODEN POLE be tastier than the grass?

Anonymous 2011/06/20(Mon)09:55 No. 315469 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi climbs up the hill and slides towards the closest cave, peeking through the entrance.

Uh oh. It seems that Mechi isn't the only one with an interest for empty caves. The intruders don't smell like Gorks, and they don't look very friendly either.

Try hiding and then if they are hostile, ambush and devour.

>>315469
BUCKET! GET INSIDE BUCKET! Put your vulnerable orbs inside it and then go eat that axe. Eat them at your leisure.

they will probably try to attack you with their hands. which you will eat.

Really. Hasn't it been established by now that Mechi can't get sufficient sustenance from random things like rocks and plant matter? I mean, maybe some fruit would work, but we pretty much need to eat some sort of animals. Animals like those guys. But I do suggest getting in the bucket. Are you strong enough to pick up the axe at all from within the bucket?

The axe's handle is wood, eat if need be, but really I'm not too sure these are those kind of things, I think they make attack with claws and teeth

If we eat the the only visible weapon they have is the hammer, which shouldn't do much harm to a blob.
Too bad we can't talk though.

>>315469
HUG BEASTIES EAT NOTE

Anonymous 2011/06/20(Mon)13:35 No. 315509 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi (which from now on I'm gonna refer as a "she", even when her sexuality is probably a bit more complicated than that) quickly hides inside the steel bucket, before the angry-looking creatures can react.

She could easily reach for the axe, but I'm afraid her current form is too weak to grab it, less alone wield it.

The tiny cyclops snarl at Mechi with hostility, but from a safe distance. They show caution and just throw rocks at her from the other side of the cave.

>>315508
Aquire BUCKET HELMET.

Shift your mass in the bucket until it falls over, then cling to the inside of the bucket and the ground to get leverage and put it ontop of you.

Advance towards the cyclops.

yes, a slime snail of doom!

and if they try to yank it from on top of you, eat them.

Yep, that's a good plan. Slime snail your way over to them. Maybe detour towards the axe and dissolve the handle a bit so they can't use it, but then go towards them. Then you can jump out at them when they try to lift it, or just nibble at their feet until they do.

and if you can cling to the bucket, you can let one of them lift you along with the bucket and drop on their head for maximum damage.

Anonymous 2011/06/20(Mon)17:34 No. 315618 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi shifts her mass back and forth until the bucket falls over. Now, with this quality piece of armor, she feels safe forever. Slowly, like a battle tank, she slides over the axe, dissolving the handle, to make sure the little monsters can't use it.

Just as she's about to slide towards the cyclops at the other side of the cave, the one hanging from the ceiling drops on the bucket, stabbing it repeatedly with a small bone knife. The bucket is holding up pretty well against the attack, and even when the knife manages to pierce through it, it's not long enough to reach Mechi's cores. But the constant bumping on the bucket is getting annoying.

The other creep grabs the hammer but doesn't join the brawl. He seems to be waiting for a good opportunity to strike.

>>315618
Grab him and use him as an imp shield and/or horror weapon.

Flow though the holes in the bucket and eat him.

>>315618
OM NOM NOM the one on your back. How fast can you move, anyway?

>>315634

this, if you can. in fact, don't just nibble on his toes. flow into his stomach, eat him from the inside, and wear his skin like a British officer from the 18th century.

if this is not something you can do, stay inside the bucket.

>>315659
Move your core into the bukket, flow out the holes and eat his hands.

>>315618
Let the bucket fall partially off you to knock the guy off, and then eat the knife-wielder. Keep a grip on the bucket so you can pull it back over you afterwards.

>>315659
I agree with this course of action. Creep tentrils up from the bucket, and bind him to the top, then force your way into his bodily cavities to devour his delicious organs.

Hey, what kind of sensory organs do you have, anyway?

Smash one using the bucket.

Be beautiful.

Anonymous 2011/06/21(Tue)08:19 No. 315905 ID: f5e4b4
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As it's been said previously, Mechi is too weak to grab the tiny cyclops, but she can easily entangle him with her tendrils, then knock over the bucket, making him lose his balance and fall down. Mechi slides over him, absorbing his body.

The other monster, obviously horrified of his friend's fate, panics and runs away, taking the hammer with him. But Mechi is too busy enjoying her first decent (if only a bit noisy) meal in weeks to care about that!

Once she finishes absorbing the cyclops, she feels much better, stronger and more solid.
Mechi should now be able to move faster, do some basic shapeshifting, and grab and wield objects (not too heavy, though). If she keeps eating healthily, she'll become more powerful and control her mass and form better.

>>315883

Mechi has no idea, but if she knew about those things, she'll tell you that she has a decent sense of hearing and touch. She has a pretty good sense of smell. An an excellent vision too, she even has infrared vision to see in the dark. Pretty good for a blob with no distinguishable organs, huh?

Form breasts

Just plop your gooey noneyeball lookers all over that fucking note after you get done hugging that cyclops

equip that bucket.

bucket armor is the only armor.

Anonymous 2011/06/21(Tue)14:23 No. 315998 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi recovers her IMPENETRABLE ARMOR.

>>315906

Mechi doesn't know what breasts are!

>>315907

Mechi ogles the note on the wall, but for her it's just a piece of paper full of squiggly lines and symbols she doesn't understand. She can't read!

oh well, leave cave and check others. maybe more have cyclopes you can eat.

>>315998

head downtown to acquire critical information regarding mammary glands. jesus, it's like you grew up in a pit or something.

Oh well, maybe now we can head off down the blood soaked trail, seeing as we've eaten.

Damn, you're telling me you can't absorb intelligence by eating people? How the hell we gonna get intelligence. We have to eat enough to get lips and vocals, if you even know how to talk.

Try basic shapeshifting to make a mouth to make a noise

>>315998
Eat note to deny others this sinister advantage over you of knowledge!

Can you hold the axe in your wiggly graspers without cutting yourself? It could be a good weapon in short range, rather than grappling range.

>>316044
We are an OOZE, we dont need tools such as that. For offence all we need is our caustic devouring touch.

Inspect the other caves, maybe there are more "delicious red food" (imps) in them.

Can you roll up the mat and keep it inside the bucket? Maybe it can be used to protect you against the hazards of weather and wind.

Do you have enough control to grow some centipede like legs for faster movement? Try that.

Anonymous 2011/06/22(Wed)10:38 No. 316322 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi rolls up the mat and stores it inside the bucket, takes the hatchet and slides outside, turned into a fearsome warrior!

The rest of the caves are empty, though. No imp cyclops, nothing useful, and more important, no food.

>>316005

Mechi can form a mouth and even articulate sounds, but she doesn't know any language yet! She can mimic the snarls and groans of the imps pretty well, though.

>>316301

Mechi tries, but her body isn't able to shapeshift into something that complex yet. She needs more food.

Now she's outside again, and has to decide where to go. She can follow the blood marks on the road that goes to the west, towards the forest, or she can go in the opposite direction, to the east, deeper into the mountains.

dawww. she is adorable.

follow blood

follow the smell of food, if you can even smell at all.

Bah! Why follow the blood? to find the Gorks that kept you imprisoned? To meet the ones who freed you from the Gorks, when you have proof of a possible genocide?

Go the other way - hunt fresh food and knowledge!

follow blood to wounded thing to eat.

Why follow the blood?
Go the otherway! To freedom from the past etc...!

>>316341

we'll be free of our past once we eat our past.

blood trail GET.

we must quest for more food to make this bucket proud.

Anonymous 2011/06/23(Thu)10:25 No. 316744 ID: f5e4b4
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Mechi follows the trail of blood as the little village disappears between the mountains behind her, and she slowly slides into the forest. She almost forgets about the blood as she contemplates in ecstasy all the new forms and colors that surround her, the smell, the trees, the sound of the wild animals.

She snaps off that trance, gods know after how long, just in time to notice that the trail of blood leaves the dirt path and enters deeper in the woods, towards a small cave in a nearby hill. Should she follow it?

first reach into the little hole in the tree and see if it has a small animal in it. then follow blood.